Another commodity boom is coming as a result of the COVID-19 induced break in the global supply chain and Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. Many analysts are predicting that this will be the launching device for some regional economies towards development. History however seems to contradict these optimistic views. From the 17th century to this part,…
With that title, a Forum took place on April 26 in Miami, organized by the Interamerican Institute for Democracy and the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom at Florida International University. The timing was opportune for two days earlier Macron had been re-elected in France, but his rival’s political sector had obtained its best historical…
A country with political prisoners and exiles is a dictatorship that can only be possible when there is neither the rule of law nor the separation and independence of the branches of government, something that institutionalizes the violation of human rights and basic freedoms and allows State terrorism to exist. The seriousness of the current…
The quick answer is Ukraine, as Faared Zacaria and Thomas Friedman cleverly said, each on their own. But it’s winning at the cost of the demolition of a few cities, which makes reconciliation between the two countries impossible until several generations have passed. There are at least five reasons to suppose that Ukraine is “winning.”…
As human beings we are born with an innate understanding of property. This idea was recently validated by the work of experimental economist Bart Wilson. In his book The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind, Professor Wilson argues that the human property instinct evolved along with abstract reasoning and the production of compound…
The question can be divided into two: the answer if he can be accused is affirmative, but if there ever will be a sentence becomes more difficult. It can also differ if he is in power or has already abandoned it, since they are crimes that do not prescribe; and that it can be advanced,…
The one to blame is the third generation. “Industrious father. Millionaire son. Spendthrift grandson,” Álvaro sentenced. It was a conversation among four people in which there was almost total agreement. Peruvian Álvaro Vargas Llosa, Argentine economist Gerardo Bongiovanni, Cuban Linda Montaner – my wife – and this unfortunate scribbler. In Spain, in Chile, in Peru,…
Russia’s invasion to Ukraine has produced the global war of dictatorship against democracy. A conflict in which neutrality is not possible, a fight with armed actions in Ukrainian territory but with a generalized, economic, political, communicational confrontation and consequences that impact everyone. This war brings to the forefront the existence of “two Americas”, the democratic…
“Revolution in Chile” is one of the best-selling books in the country’s history. It was published in 1963 by Guillermo Blanco and Carlos Ruiz-Tagle, who satirized by describing the visit of a supposed American journalist (Sillie Utternut), who misinterpreted everything she saw as part of a revolution. Is something similar happening today? The truth is…
On Palm Sunday we were woken up by the news that Pakistan’s prime minister had lost his battle against parliament’s no-confidence vote and would have to step down. Imran Khan was one of the greatest glories of cricket, a game that fascinates the nations of the British Commonwealth but is an archaic predecessor of baseball,…
